چرا در اتاق باز است؟

to be

Breakdown of چرا در اتاق باز است؟

• چرا: why
• اتاق: room
• در: door

Questions & Answers about چرا در اتاق باز است؟

How is this sentence pronounced?

A careful pronunciation is:

cherâ dar-e otâq bâz ast?

A very natural everyday spoken version is:

cherâ dar-e otâq bâze?

A few notes:

• چرا = cherâ
• درِ اتاق = dar-e otâq
• باز = bâz
• است = ast, but in conversation it often becomes -e

What does each part of the sentence do?

Here is the structure:

• چرا = why
• درِ اتاق = the room’s door / the door of the room
• باز = open
• است = is

So the sentence structure is basically:

Why + the room door + open + is?

That is normal Persian word order for this kind of sentence.

Why does در mean door here, not in?

Because در in Persian can mean two different things:

• در = door
• در = in / at / inside

In this sentence, the intended reading is door. The phrase is really , meaning .